Pat Fisher of Hawaii Safaris Gets Three Glowing Hunt Reports

Published: July - 2011

In Hawaii, we recently received three glowing reports on Pat Fisher's Hawaii Safaris (808-640-0755; www.hawaiisafaris.com). Continuing subscribers know Fisher's name well; he operated the Ulupalakua Hunting Club on Maui in the 1990s and in 2001 became the wildlife/hunting manager of the famed Parker Ranch. In 2009 we reported that Fisher had left the Parker Ranch to operate Hawaii Safaris. Then, last May, we told you that Fisher had expanded his operation, now also called Fisher Outfitters (www.fisheroutfitters.com) to include hunts for Columbia whitetail and blacktail deer and Roosevelt elk in Oregon.

The first new report we received on Fisher is from Mike O'Malley who took a gold-medal mouflon, silver-medal axis deer and feral goat with Fisher this past January. "Once again, my thanks to The Hunting Report for the information on a good outfitter on Hawaii," writes O'Malley. "Patrick Fisher received top billing from The Hunting Report and I found out why. I had a very good hunt with Pat and was impressed with his hunting areas and how he judges a hunter's physical condition and hunting ability and matches him to areas suitable to his abilities. He knows the animals and the country they live in. His care of the meat and capes was the best I have ever experienced. I was also very impressed with his hunting guides, Steve Gelakoski on Lanai and Kevin Nakamaru on the Big Island. Pat is the best pick to outfit your hunt in Hawaii."

Ed Yates hunted with Fisher this past February on both Lanai and the Big Island. He hunted with Fisher personally on Lanai and took a 31-inch mouflon sheep, and with Nakamaru on the Keala Kekua and Deileco ranches on Hawaii where he took a 27 1/2 inch Arapawa sheep and an "average" feral goat. Yates says that game was abundant and free range: "We saw numerous axis deer, wild turkey and feral pigs. The mouflon area on Lanai involved a lot of climbing up and down steep canyons."